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If you're addressing my posts, I was reacting to the general post comparing rape and gun theft. Often enough on this forum the "victim blaming" thing about leaving guns in very unsecure cars comes up. It takes seconds to break a window and pop the trunk.So let me get this straight a man gets his truck and trailer stolen from a hotel parking lot, then the trailer was involved in a police chase and an accident while attached to a different stolen truck, while in the meantime the original truck seems to still be missing along with the contents of the trailer.
I understand that guns are missing and that they can be used in a crime but so can the truck and it seems the trailer was headed to some dastardly deed as well. Hell, it could have ben loaded with explosives like a well-known Ryder truck and do as much damage as the guns.
Can you tell me what the guy could have done differently, he had the guns in a trailer I am assuming locked up and in a lighted area? Mabey taken all 35 of the guns in the hotel room but ever since the Nevada shooting most hotels do not like that to well.
So, if me and a buddy break into your house and steal your whole gun safe we should blame you for the theft. I am trying to find the article again from a few years ago where that is what happened, 4 guys went in to a guy's house and loaded up 2-gun safes with guns in them and drove off. They said each weighed over 1000 lbs. Safes found later cut open and empty.
If folks want your stuff bad enough, they will get it, just saying.
It would be great to live in a perfect world but we don't and we never will.
They say for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction but with humans for every good guy there is an equal and opposite bad guy! Prove me wrong.
Listed below is another article where a safe and 30 guns stolen.
https://www.kcbd.com/story/34111685/thieves-steal-lubbock-mans-safe-with-about-30-guns-inside/
400 lb safe ripped off wall 2nd one in a short time.
In this particular case, if the trailer was very hard to break into or the guns had cables running through them, I agree that the victim did his best to secure them. And I would say the same of a someone with a cable locking their gun inside their car.